19 March, 2022 The European Union estimates member countries 2022-23 olive oil production to drop to 1.5 million tons and global to 2.6 million sinking to under 3 million for the first time in 5 years. As a result, producer prices for EVOO now exceed $5/liter, double the pre-covid levels....
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The worst drought in Europe in 500 years is expected to lower the yield to only 1.7 million tons in the 2022/23 crop year Growers in Spain, the world’s largest olive oil producer, predicted a 50% decline in production. Meanwhile, authorities in Tunisia, Italy and Portugal also anticipate significant production decreases this year. The Italian domestic...
It was a regular year. Looking at the five-years production average, E.U. olive oil production grew by 11 percent in the 2021/22 crop year. Spain was expected to contribute 66 percent of the yields with 1.49 million tons in the current season, followed by Italy with 15 percent (328,000 tons)...
We Greeks did not cause the pandemic! We just lent the letters from our alphabet that christened Covid-19’s mutations; scientists preferred it to the Chinese characters of the seeming culprits. Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, kept students away from campus dining halls for nearly three years and stymied our efforts to...
After being derailed by the pandemic, the Mediterranean Diet Roundtable (MDR) reconvened at the University of Notre Dame this month to remind its audience of the healthful benefits of the Mediterranean Diet. (https://mdrproject.com/about-us/#team). The leading Dining Services from the University of Massachusetts and Yale showed how the menus they construct...
